During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4) exposed how the Biden Justice Department opened—then deliberately shelved—a criminal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Jordan claimed the previous administration's DOJ, under then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, discovered the SPLC was operating what has been described as a lucrative scam.
"They had opened an investigation. They were looking into this group. They knew the Southern Poverty Law Center was running a scam, but they dropped the case," Jordan said.
He detailed how the group had become so deeply embedded with the department, training prosecutors and serving as a key source for efforts that labeled pro-life Catholics and conservatives as domestic extremists.
"When you meet with them, consult with them, have them train your prosecutors, well, guess what? You're not gonna prosecute them," Jordan explained. "They're too valuable politically. You gotta use them for your political advantage. And that's exactly what the Biden administration did."
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Rep. Jim Jordan just confirmed the Biden admin DROPPED the investigation against fraudulent Southern Poverty Law Center after the SPLC trained their own DOJ staff to target conservatives
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 20, 2026
Now we know the SPLC PAID neo-nazis to boost their own income
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The Ohio congressman noted how the SPLC used the now-infamous "Richmond Memo" in an effort to portray traditional Catholics as politically extremist.
"That memo says, if you're a pro-life Catholic, well, you're an extremist, you're dangerous," Jordan said. "The SPLC became part of the weaponized effort of the Garland Biden Justice Department against the American people."
Jordan also highlighted a stunning example from the SPLC’s own operations that underscores the alleged hate-for-profit model, which has been covered here at RedState. The Justice Department last month filed an 11-count federal indictment charging the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering for secretly funneling more than $3 million in donor cash to actual extremists.
Among those nefarious payments was a staggering $270,000 allegedly paid to a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. That paid insider attended the event at the SPLC’s direction, helped coordinate transportation for attendees, and even made racist postings under the group’s supervision.
"The Southern Poverty Law Center almost tripled their income. They went from $51 million annual income to $133 million," Jordan said. "Turned out for them, creating hate was more profitable than fighting it. That's exactly what they did. They ran a scam, they became the standard, they didn't get prosecuted, and they made a ton of money."
That rally, of course, led to the wholly media-manufactured "fine people" hoax. As Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche noted, the group had been caught "manufacturing racism," which, in this particular case, indirectly led to the death of a rally attendee.
The "Very Fine People" Hoax just got a major plot twist.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 22, 2026
It turns out the Unite the Right group that was involved in Charlottesville was a LEFT-WING FUNDED FRONT GROUP.
So, this was a HOAX upon a HOAX upon a HOAX.
An Unholy Trinity of Hoaxes.
The Justice Dept. has just… pic.twitter.com/3nr7whDCi6
The "Very Fine People" Hoax just got a major plot twist.
It turns out the Unite the Right group that was involved in Charlottesville was a LEFT-WING FUNDED FRONT GROUP.
So, this was a HOAX upon a HOAX upon a HOAX.
An Unholy Trinity of Hoaxes.
The Justice Dept. has just indicted the SPLC and found that it purportedly funded Unite the Right, assisted with messaging and coordination, and even provided transportation.
This is aiding-and-abetting. Literally, a "criminal conspiracy," if proven true in a court of law.
Here are the hoaxes the Democratic Party weaponized in order to fuel riots, smear its opposition, and racially divide Americans:
1. Trump did not call the white supremacists and extremists the SPLC funded "very fine people." Yet the DNC-propaganda media pushed this blatant lie.
2. The Unite the Right front group was funded by the same SPLC that was providing the Democrats with "anti-hate" talking points. They were staging the "right-wing hate," spreading propaganda about it, and coordinating with Democrats on how to "fight" the imaginary racist hate.
3. Joe Biden claimed he "ran for president" because of the "Very Fine People" Hoax. The SPLC was behind this hoax. Was this a coincidence or a DNC-masterminded plot?
This is as damning as it gets in American politics.
How in the world can someone support a Democratic Party that would go to such evil lengths to falsely smear its political opposition?
Well, you can't very well go after the group who helped light the match for a hoax that falsely portrayed Trump as a Nazi-sympathizer (though gullible Biden voters and the media fell for it), and was the entire reason that Biden cited in his announcement as to why he ran for President in the first place. Now can you? He owed his presidency to this group.
Jordan concluded by noting the alleged criminal enterprise is under fire now that the adults are back in the room at the DOJ.
"Guess what?" he said. "They're prosecuting these guys."
It's been well overdue.
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